Police Force Collection (page 2)

Houndsditch Outrage
January 1911: The besieged house is identified with a cross during the Sidney Street Siege. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

School Outing
23rd July 1912: Pupils are driven away from the station during the LNW school outing to Brickett Wood. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

River Police
circa 1921: Waterloo police station, on the bank of the River Thames, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Pedestrians Crossing
6th August 1912: Pedestrians cross the road in Piccadilly, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Ambulance Interior
1906: A view of the inside of a police ambulance. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Bombed House
July 1915: Crowds outside a house in Shoreditch, London, bombed in a zeppelin raid during World War I. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Police Guard
July 1906: Policemen sent to Brooklands to guard the motor racing track. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Policemans Walk
22nd July 1939: Metropolitan Police Athletics Championships at Imber Court, Thames Ditton, Surrey. 2 mile walk in progress. (Photo by Davies/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Police Timer
January 1909: A British police constable inspecting an electric timing device for motor cars. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Police Timing
January 1909: A Policeman signalling from a roof top as a method for timing motor cars. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Traffic Signals
21st July 1926: New traffic signals on the corner of Piccadilly and Old Street in London. (Photo by Kirby/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Police Escort
Police motorcycles escort President Calvin Coolidges car en route to Washington. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Russians Raided
An office belonging to the Union of Russians in the USA after a police raid to quash communist activities. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Highland Parade
November 1915: The Canadian Highlanders marching through London during the Lord Mayors Procession, flanked by a single policeman. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

All-Out
1919: Police strike meeting at Tower Hill, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Police Union
5th May 1919: A Police Union demonstration in Trafalgar Square. (Photo by Roper/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Parliament Street
2nd December 1924: A policeman holds up the traffic in Parliament Street to allow members of parliament to get to the House of Commons on a rainy winter evening

Horse Cups
14th June 1907: A policeman guarding the prizes at the Richmond Horse Show. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Police Push
circa 1920: Police pushing back the crowd at an unemployment demonstration in Whitehall, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Young Trickster
4th November 1925: A practical joker attaching a firework to a policemans jacket. (Photo by Kirby/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Buses Collide
31st July 1912: A cart lies overturned on the road after being involved in an accident with two buses in Fleet Street, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Police Ambulance
1906: A City of London Police ambulance. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Antique Ambulance
1906: A motor police ambulance for the City Of London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Foggy Christmas
1st December 1948: Two policemen regard Londons 64ft Christmas tree, a gift from Norway, illuminated in Trafalgar Square, in front of the National Gallery

Petrol Wagon
7th May 1926: Mounted police escort a petrol wagon along St Georges Road, Southwark, London, during the General Strike. (Photo by Kirby/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Back To School
27th August 1935: A police officer helping a group of children to cross Rosebery Avenue, London, on their way to school. (Photo by J. A. Hampton/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Royal Ascot
The cups arrive at Ascot Station prior to the races, 16th June 1908. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Santa And The Law
Father Christmas walking down the street flanked by two policemen. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Festival Force
25th August 1973: Police keep an eye on the crowd at Windsor Pop Festival in Windsor Great Park. (Photo by Tim Graham/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Ladies Of The Night
30th October 1979: Prostitutes still ply their trade under the glare of the street lamps, but the police are never far away. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

River Police
13th October 1976: A police boat at speed on the river Thames in London, with Tower Bridge behind. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Police Line
circa 1980: Police forming a line in front of demonstrators at Llanwern Steel. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Speed Trap
1st December 1978: PC Alex McHattie aiming a radar speed gun (VASCA) at a car. (Photo by Roy Chaplin/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

City Snow
20th November 1965: A policeman directs traffic on a snowy day in Ludgate Circus, London as a frozen food van drives past. (Photo by Sydney O Meara/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Guarding The St Louis
17th June 1939: Gendarmes and plain-clothes police guard the St Louis, as it docks at the Belgian port of Antwerp with its cargo of German-Jewish refugees, after being denied admittance to Cuba

Searching Car
2nd September 1950: A customs officer searching the boot of a car at Calais. Original Publication: Picture Post - Through The French Customs - pub

Public Nuisance
28th January 1939: An unusual sign in Londons Mayfair warns passers-by against making a public nuisance of themselves. Original Publication: Picture Post - 80 - Mayfair - pub

Prussians In Paris
6th January 1871: Prussian military police group at the Palace of Versailles during the Franco-Prussian war. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Gendarmes
French policemen patrolling the Champs-Elysees in Paris, during a period of unrest between politicians General de Gaulle and Guy Mollet

Charlie Boy
A gentleman pushing over a watchmans hut to the delight of passers by. Entitled, Getting the Better of a Charlie. Original Artwork

Bow Street Runner
John Townsend, a Bow Street Runner. The Runners were forerunners of the modern police force and policed the streets in conjunction with nightwatchman but were more efficient

Keeping The Peace
Cartoon titled A Slap At The Charleys or A Tom And Jerry Lark published in response to Robert Peels reorganization of the London metropolitan police force

Safer Streets
A line of policemen in beards striking terror into the hearts of the local children, entitled, The Police wear Beards and Moustaches - Panic Among The Street Boys

Peelers
31st January 1837: Policemen assembling at Bow Street, London. Original Artwork: Engraving from the Penny Magazine (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Antique illustration of Lenoir, lieutenant de police

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